A Teacher Returns an Exam with Possible Scores Ranging from 0

question 3

Multiple Choice

A teacher returns an exam with possible scores ranging from 0 to 100. The students suspect that the majority of them performed poorly on the exam and request summary statistics. The teacher provides the mean, which was 72, as a summary statistic. A total of 400 students took the exam. The teacher, after several requests, provides a boxplot of the exam scores. The students can get which of the following pieces of information from this plot?

• A)the median
• B)the IQR
• C)the minimum and the maximum
• D)All of the answer options are correct.

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